Adults

Helping Hand Nutrition aims to keep it as simple and make it easy for individuals to make lasting changes. We want to collaborate with you to create personalized and achievable goals. We do this by focusing on small changes that will ultimately yield long-term results. However, if you are looking to make a dramatic change, then we can still help push you to the next level! Our highly customized approach depends on your patience, personality, and individual goals. We place a major emphasis on inventive, real-world solutions that will help you navigate menu selections at your favorite restaurants, help you work through emotional eating patterns, and overcome any other of life’s hurdles.

We will supply you with a personalized grocery shopping list as well as a list of on the go foods that can be kept in your office, purse, and/or glove compartment. We also incorporate mindful eating strategies to help you gauge and honor feelings of hunger and fullness to prevent both feelings of deprivation and overeating. We seek to supply you with the tools to develop a healthy and sustainable relationship with food and overcome any obstacle that may present itself.

Teens

Helping Hand Nutrition will provide your teenager with age-appropriate nutrition education in a fun and engaging way that makes healthy eating easy to understand and apply within their lives. We desire to supply your teenager with the tools they need to become self-confident and competent caretakers of their own nutrition and health. We accomplish this by teaching teens how to incorporate mindful eating strategies so that they can gauge and honor their body’s hunger and fullness cues and encourage them to stay active in fun ways. We also teach them age-appropriate nutrition skills and help them stay motivated to take care of their bodies.

We aim for a whole-family approach, so your teenager does not feel like they are being singled out. Parents will be removed from the role of "food police," and your teen will become empowered and motivated to pay attention to their nutrition needs. It is essential to take the focus away from any shame or secrecy involving food that may exist. Ultimately, we intend to reduce restriction and rebellion attitude and teach teenagers how to take control of their food, body, and body image to promote self-confidence and independence. The style we use is heavily influenced by Ellyn Satter's division of responsibility for feeding. Our nutrition professionals also provide parents with book recommendations, grocery lists, and nutritious (and tasty) snack and meal ideas.

Kids

Have you ever caught your child sneaking food or worried that your child is ignoring their body’s nutrition needs?

Helping Hand Nutrition aims to help children develop positive life-long relationships with food by delivering age-appropriate nutrition education with a family-centered approach. This means that no child is made to feel self-conscious about their current patterns, and nutrition information is provided in a fun and engaging way. We also promote eating mindfully and staying active in a non-threatening. We want to help children learn to gauge and honor their feelings of hunger and fullness so that they don’t accidentally overfeed their small frames.

It is important that we change any patterns of shame, secrecy, and hiding that may exist. We desire to take parents out of the role of the “food police” and take the focus away from any shame and restriction surrounding food. We will instead use the child’s food likes to build their self-confidence, build rapport and reduce anxiety. The style we use is heavily influenced by Ellyn Satter's division of responsibility for feeding, which clarifies what the child’’s exact roles are when it comes to feeding. Our nutrition professionals also provide parents with book recommendations, grocery lists, and nutritious (and tasty) snack and meal ideas.